If you are going to a pre release with the intent of obtaining cards for commander I think you are probably not spending your money where you should. Pre release is fun and you will get potentially more packs for your money at pre release than just buying packs but that said buying packs is a horrib...

If Griselbrand wasn't a legend I wouldn't be half as concerned about him as I am. When you build a deck around him though its a lot easier to turn it into a mana burst sort of deck that tends to play storm / Ad Nausium fairly easily though. When you start looking at T1-3 consistant griselbrand who w...

Thanks for asking that question. I have a better understanding now. Yeah after thinking about it, I think I should just add another repeatable card draw card in Call of the Ring's place. I think Dark Prophecy is actually quite dangerous in this deck as you can lose a lot life due to death triggers ...

Thanks that is what I thought but it seemed a bit odd being a static ability. It makes sense though when you explain that it looks back at when it was in play to determine the death triggers that clears things up.

My understanding of 4x Mondrak, Glory Dominus is that you just do simple multiplication so it would be 1 commander trigger * 2 (Mondrake) * 2 (Mondrake) * 2 (Mondrake) * 2 (Mondrake) = 16 tokens. In a case where you have the 4 Monodrake, 1 commander, and Saw In Half him it would be along the lines o...

If I have a Ratadrabik of Urborg in play with Gandalf the White , Drivnod, Carnage Dominus , or Teysa Karlov do I get two triggers of Ratadrabik if the source of the double death triggers dies or is sacrificed? I assume I do but it feels a little odd being that its sort of a static doubling that sto...

I really wanted to do a Norin the Wary deck on Rocco because the commander could assemble the pieces and it gave the right colors to have good support for him. I never got around to doing it but I think its still totally viable.

Balance is a problem because players play it optimally and the counterpalay is heavily towards counter magic. If Balance isn't played optimally its no different than someone casting Jokulhaups with no follow-up. It is true that there is a long and tedious game after that but that is only sometimes ...

I can't help but read the explanations of why cards are banned and ask why the hell we haven't banned like 20 other cards that are bigger problems than cards we have actually had banned for years. Reading the explination of the bans on Erayo, Soratami Ascendant // Erayo's Essence and Balance and the...

That all sounds good. Right now I am really pushing hard for more draw and cheaper more expendable legends and I will see how and where that goes for me. I have considered if something like Land Tax might be useful as well given that we really aren't ramping lands much at all and it might be somethi...

Repeatable draw would be better. I forgot about Dark Prophecy and it makes sense that you'd test out Daxos considering you'd lose a lot of life drawing cards. I have a spare Necropotence from an unfinished deck I can add. Maybe I'll add it in. Additionally, I've seen Gift of Immortality in other Ra...

Yeah for draw I chose Village Rites , Nasty End , and Plumb the Forbidden to combine the sac element with the draw. I think there's a new Village clone that would work better than Plumb in terms of mana efficiency. Plumb though is decent when facing a board wipe, but then it's more reactionary. I a...

pool party done by Jim Lee https://external-preview.redd.it/47c6Cu5LQJQlny8UcJMF0IRbdQq4wVn892FKobwKDww.jpg?auto=webp&s=658c55b0fdd778f72b1be38516423d8725ceda31 I can't stop thinking of how terrifying it would be to be in a pool with rogue not wearing a full body suit. You accidentally brush by...

Okkkkkk I finally got around to playing games with this deck and..... yea its fun but holy hell its also combo tastic and it can be kind of slow rolling to get to its objective. I think I got away with a lot of stuff just because things weren't falling into place until suddenly they super were. Peop...

If you ask me it really doesn't cost them to make a product with solid reprints with no single outstanding money card. They have reprinted a lot of the like $5 or less cards into oblivion at this point and while it still costs a few dollars a card for those its really only useful to newer players to...

Alright, its been a hot minute since I updated this one. I always get a little squirrely when we go into Path of Exile new league time and I fall off a little in my updates of existing decks. I have been kind of poke updating this deck as I went and I do think that the Ixilan set brought a lot of re...

Well a little backstory, I did what I was hoping for as an aura focused death trigger deck based on Danitha a while back and while it found some sucess I really found that it sort of rarely accomplished its thing because it didn't have enough targets in the deck that were hits and it really wanted t...

I jumped to conclusions there it looks like its just triggered and not activated abilities. My bad for posting quick when I was on my way out the door.

I am not a judge but I believe in the case of Teysa Karlov it creates an instance where the other trigger goes on the stack twice rather than generating a trigger itself for the other effect to generate a second trigger. If we can shrink our commander via something like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician I b...

Ok, I have sleeved up what I can from what I have on hand and a bunch of stuff is in the mail still. I still haven't played this deck yet but the high curve was nagging at me so I worked on it a little asking myself what my priority in this deck is and I think I was really pushing myself on the lege...

Let me start off by saying I haven't piloted this at all so all of my thoughts are still mostly theoretical rather than anything proven. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is on my shortlist too. Even with one of your token doublers, she can slow down your opponents. Late game with an Ojer Taq, Deepest Fou...

Mangara of Corondor is gross. I remember fearing him in Legacy Death and Taxes. That deck had some great unintuitive rules exploits. I've only run my version of this once, but it felt very resilient. Excited to see how yours develops. I put in an order for some cards and I am mulling over a few add...

I'm curious to see how Drivnod, Carnage Dominus works for you. I have it on the shortlist for a bunch of decks, but it usually gets cut in favor of other stuff that plays in a similar space/has more utility. This is definitely what my Ratadrabik of Urborg list would look like if I was playing pick ...

This deck can get some super splashy things off but it also looks like its going to take some assembly to do some of it. The "Living the Dream" of this deck is going to be something along the lines of Commander + Double Death Trigger + Token Multiplication Mechanics . In short, if it actua...

I feel like you might want a few more cheap non humans to trigger winota but you seem to be pushing a bit more for the utility for Norin guys rather than triggers for winota offhand. Its probably fine but you will notice a slower opener due to it. I found that a number of vehicles were actually quit...